Decentralized Local Governance in India: Some Excluded factors and Inclusive Policy

Abstract Decentralization is a process through which authority and responsibilities for some substantial government functions are transferred from central government to intermediate and local governments, and often also to communities. In this study decentralization is investigated along three dimensions: political, administrative and fiscal decentralization. Political Decentralization transfers policy and legislative powers from central governments to autonomous, lower level assemblies and local councils that have been democratically elected by their constituencies. Administrative Decentralization places planning and implementation responsibilities in the hands of locally situated civil servants and these local civil servants under the jurisdiction of elected local governments. The present research paper states that the role of decentralized governance in raising the participation of marginalized groups in socio-economic framework in the country.